February 16, 2018--A new exchange traded fund issued by UBS Global Asset Management has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Friday.
The new equity index ETF enables investors to participate in the performance of companies around the world that meet strict sustainability criteria.

February 15, 2018--ETF provides access to the largest 600 companies from 17 European countries
Another exchange traded fund issued by ComStage has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since 15 February 2018.
The ComStage 1 STOXX Europe 600 UCITS ETF enables investors to participate in the performance of the STOXX Europe 600 Index.

February 15, 2018--Aggregate bond index ETF available in currency-hedged unit classes US dollar, euro and pound sterling
A bond index ETF in the three currency-hedged unit classes on the reference index Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index, issued by State Street Global Advisors, has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since 15 February 2018.

February 15, 2018--The new venue is aiming to accommodate individual and institutional traders and investors
Paymium has announced that it is preparing to launch a new cryptocurrency exchange in Europe.

February 14, 2018--
DRIVERS OF UK WAGE GROWTH1
Since the financial crisis, nominal wage growth has been much weaker than during the previous
decade. This chapter finds that the main factors behind the slowdown include weak productivity
growth, labor market slack (both in the UK and the EU), and low inflation.

February 14, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is launching its Interactive Single Rulebook, which is a new service for market participants and other interested stakeholders across the European Union.

February 13, 2018--The following data is derived from trading activity on the Tradeweb European-listed ETF platform.
ETF total traded volume
January proved to be a record-breaking month for the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace, with total traded volume just shy of €20 billion, up 12% from the platform's previous best performance in May 2017.

ETFGI reports a strong start to 2018 for ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe with a record increase in assets of US$54.0 billion during January to reach a new high of US$856 billion

February 12, 2018--ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported a strong start to 2018 for ETFs and ETPs listed in Europe, with a record increase in invested assets of US$54.0 billion during January to reach a new high of US$856 billion at the end of the month. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)

February 12, 2018--January saw Eurex MSCI products get off to a great start in 2018. Due to the advancing roll period, open interest in many established products and several new ones have gained traction, most notably in the MSCI U.S. products.

February 12, 2018--Given that we have witnessed many headlines concerning passive investing and the popularity of ETFs, confirmed by the inflows and increasing assets under management in the European ETF industry, one could conclude that European investors like index products.

February 11, 2018--Letter from European Commission tells fund companies to act nowBrussels has issued a stark Brexit warning to the asset management industry, telling fund companies to act now or face potential market shutout when the UK leaves the EU next March.

February 9, 2018--Amundi: Results for 2017 and strategic ambitions for 2020
2017: all targets announced at the IPO have been surpassed
Net inflows of €71bn, leading to asset under management of €1,426bnCombined and adjusted net earnings[1] of €918m, up +14%

February 9, 2018--A new exchange traded fund (ETF) issued by Deutsche Asset Management has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since 9. February. The bond index ETF enables investors to participate in the performance of fixed-rate corporate bonds denominated in US dollars.

February 8, 2018--Selection index comprises the 30 most liquid equities from the Scale segment
Deutsche Börse expanded its index offering by launching the Scale 30 Index on Wednesday. The selection index tracks the performance of the 30 most liquid companies listed in the SME segment Scale. Eligibility for index inclusion depends on order book turnover on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt.

February 7, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today updated its Questions and Answers regarding transparency issues under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR).

February 7, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its 2018 Supervisory Convergence Work Programme (SCWP), which details the activities and tasks it will carry out to promote sound, efficient and consistent supervision across the European Union (EU).

Room for more-Addition of six western Balkan countries would take the union to a jumbo 33 members

February 6, 2018--Move over, Brexit-and step forward, Baccession. As battle deepens over the UK's terms of departure from the EU, Brussels is about to highlight instead what it sees as the union's continued potential to grow.

February 6, 2018--This monthly release shows details of movements in the UK's official holdings of international reserves, or assets. These consist of gold, foreign currency assets and International Monetary Fund assets.

Three new ETFs with a focus on technology launched on Xetra by ETF Securities

February 6, 2018--ETFs offer access to companies from the fields of e,commerce, pharma and energy storage technologies
Three new exchange traded funds issued by ETF Securities have been tradable on Xetra since 6. February.The three new equity index ETFs give investors the opportunity to participate in the performance of companies from the fields of e-commerce, pharma and energy storage technologies.

February 6, 2018--Nine new exchange traded funds issued by Amundi Asset Management S.A. have been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Tuesday. Amundi's product range offers in-vestors access to stock corporations from various regions and to bond index ETFs that track government and corporate bonds.

February 5, 2018--The Dutch Central Bank (DNB) today informed Flow Trades that it intends to complete the formalities that will enable Flow Traders to meet applicable CRR capital requirements. As a result of the completion of these formalities, Flow Traders expects to meet these capital requirements and its dividend policy to remain unaffected.

February 5, 2018--STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group's index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today announced that the iSTOXX Global Diversity Impact Select 30 Index and the iSTOXX Europe Diversity Impact Select 30 Index were licensed to Goldman Sachs as an underlying for the issuance of structured products.

Boerse Stuttgart generates turnover in excess of EUR 7.5 billion in January

February 2, 2018--Significant increase in turnover across all asset classes
According to its order book statistics, Boerse Stuttgart generated turnover in excess of EUR 7.5 billion in January 2018. The trading volume was around 24 percent higher than in the previous month.

February 2, 2018--Increase of 34 per cent year-on-year
With a turnover of €156.5 billion in January, Deutsche Börse cash markets achieved the highest January turnover since 2008 (January 2017: €116.8 billion).

February 2, 2018--Euro
GBP/EUR expected range: 1.1350-1.1465
The EUR dipped once more below USD1.24 early yesterday morning but since then it's been on an upward tear; rising a full cent off the low to be within touching distance of the 3-year high of 1.2530 reached during the ECB Press Conference last week.

February 2, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today the results of its second EU-wide stress test exercise regarding Central Counterparties (CCPs) established in the European Union (EU).

February 1, 2018--The Commission launched today the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum with the support of the European Parliament, represented by Jakob von Weizsäcker responsible for the recent report on virtual currencies.

February 1, 2018--Up 6.6% from December 2017 and the best month since October
The number of trades in January were up 28.7% from the preceding month
The Spanish Stock Exchange traded €50.8 billion in January, up 6.6% from December 2017and the best month since October. The number of trades came in at 4.2 million in January, up 28.7% from the preceding month.

New partnership of industry and academia explores potential of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

February 1, 2018--Post-trade services provider Clearstream, part of Deutsche Börse Group, has entered a collaborative research partnership with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg.

January 31, 2018--The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today its 2018 EU-wide stress test and released the macroeconomic scenarios. The adverse scenario implies a deviation of EU GDP from its baseline level by 8.3% in 2020, resulting in the most severe scenario to date.

January 31, 2018--Britain's government should immediately publish a leaked report about the economic costs of leaving the European Union, the lower house of parliament's Treasury Committee said Wednesday.

January 29, 2018--Task force urges eurozone rule change for common securities. A central bank task force has said the eurozone's financial rules need to change if a mooted and politically charged "safe asset" to strengthen the single currency area's banking system is to work.

January 29, 2018--Bond index ETF invests in investment-grade fixed-income bonds worldwide
A new exchange traded fund (ETF) issued by State Street Global Advisors has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday.

January 29, 2018--Looking at the headline figures, the year 2017 could be considered a good year for the European fund industry, since the assets under management (+€10.4 tr) hit an all-time high at the end of December. In addition, the European fund industry enjoyed a new record in net inflows (+€756.9 bn) over the course of 2017.

January 29, 2018--Europe's first independent 'white label' UCITS ETF platform offers asset managers the infrastructure to build and launch ETFs into Europe without having to establish their own full-service business

January 26, 2018--Deutsche Börse, Europe's largest exchanges operator, is ending plans to expand in Asia with investors preferring to trade popular instruments like Stoxx futures in its home German market.

January 25, 2018--Solactive today announced the launch of the Solactive Sustainability Index Europe, which was developed with Deutsche Bank, and is designed to track the performance of environmentally and socially responsible European companies, based on the data-driven platform Arabesque S-Ray(R).

January 24, 2018--Bond index ETF invests in bonds with focus on sustainability
A new exchange traded fund (ETF) issued by Lyxor has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Wednesday.
The Lyxor Green Bond (DR) UCITS ETF enables investors to participate in the performance of green bonds issued by investment- US dollars.

ETF Securities adds three new ETFs to its Future Present technology range

January 23, 2018--ETF Securities, one of the world's leading independent providers of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), today launches three new innovative products designed to capture exposure to three unique and evolving technology opportunities.

IMF Working Paper-Economic Convergence in the Euro Area: Coming Together or Drifting Apart?

January 23, 2018--Summary:
We examine economic convergence among euro area countries on multiple dimensions. While there was nominal convergence of inflation and interest rates, real convergence of per capita income levels has not occurred among the original euro area members since the advent of the common currency. Income convergence stagnated in the early years of the common currency and has reversed in the wake of the global economic crisis.

January 22, 2018--Number of VanEck-sponsored UCITS-ETFs available in Europe will rise from 6 to 20
The Netherlands joins VanEck's core European markets, which also include Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Italy

January 19, 2018--The Supervisory Board of Flow Traders N.V. ("Flow Traders") (Euronext: FLOW) intends to nominate Folkert Joling and Thomas Wolff as additional members of the Management Board of Flow Traders. The Dutch Central Bank granted regulatory approval. Flow Traders will propose the appointment to its shareholders at the upcoming AGM, scheduled for 26 April 2018.

January 18, 2018--The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today an extended version of the MiFID II/MiFIR transitional transparency calculations (TTC) for equity and bond instruments, adding further instruments.

our new UBS Global Asset Management ETFs with focus on sustainability launched on Xetra Equity and bond index ETFs offer access to companies with a high ESG rating

January 18, 2018--Four new exchange traded funds (ETFs) issued by UBS Global Asset Management have been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Thursday.
The three new equity index ETFs enable investors to participate in the performance of companies that meet strict sustainability criteria either in Japan, the US or worldwide.